Hinge connection for water-closet hoppers



- Oct. 28 1924 F. D. LESLIE HINGE, CONNECTION FOR WATER CLOSET HOPPERS Filed Dec. '7. 1923 Ireqlandfl. Les 2116,

Patented Oct. 28, 1924.

FREELAND D. LESLIE, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HINGE CONNECTION FOB VIATER-CLOSET HOPPERSQ Application filed December 7, 1923.

T 0 all whom it may canoe-1% Be it known that I, FREELAND D. LnsLIE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Milton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinge Connections for ater- Closet Hoppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinge connections for the seats and covers of water closet hoppers and has for its object the production of a device of this character which may be used when the cover and seat are both used or when the seat alone is used.

The invention consists in providing supports for the seat hinge pin which are interchangeable and mounted upon offset shanks designed to be positioned in the usual holes provided therefor in the rear end of the hopper.

The invention further consists in a novel means of mounting the cover upon the hinge pln. The invention further consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be understood readily by! reference to the description of the drawings and to the claims to be hereinafter given.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention, one preferred form thereof is illustrated in the drawings, this form having been found to give satisfactory and reliable results although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which the invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and the invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and or ganization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described except as required by the scope of the appended claims.

Of the drawings:

Figure 1 represents a plan of a seat with the supports for the hinge pin thereof as used without a cover. 1

Figure 2 represents a plan of same with the supports adjusted to permit the positioning upon .the. hinge pin of the downwardly extending ears of the cover.

Figure 3 represents a vertical section of a support, portions of the seat and cover and the connection thereof with said support, and v v Figure 4 represents a section of one of the supports.

Serial No. 679,255.

Similar characters indicate like" parts throughout the several figures of the draw- 111g.

In the drawings 10 is a seat for a water closet hopper and 11is a cover which may be used in connection with said seat or omitted as desired.

The rear end of the seat 10 has a hinge pin 12 extending therethrough as shown in the drawings.

The seat 10 as shown has an open front end and is made in two parts as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. i

One 1 object of the present invention is to strengthen this rear end of the seat 10 and effectually prevent the separation of the.

two parts thereof. This is accomplished by threading the ends of the hinge pin and mounting cylindrical nuts 13 thereon as shown in Fig. 3.

Between each nut 13 and a side face 10 of the rear part of the seat 10 is interposed a washer 14 surrounding the hinge pin 12.

The nuts 13 may be adjusted on the.

wardly extending shank 17 offset from the center of said support.

The shanks 17 are adapted to be positioned in openings provided therefor in the rear end of a hopper.

The support 16 may! be of a cheap matcrial and left in the rough and then covered with a removable cup-shaped member 18 of porcelain or some other desired material which will give a finished appearance to be post or support. v

The cover 11 has depending ears 19, the lower ends of which have cylindrical holes therein enclosing the cylindrical nuts 13 on the hinge pin 12.

These ears 19 are freely movable on the nuts 13 about the axis of the pin 12 when it is desired to raise or lower the cover'll.

Between the ears 19 and the inner face of supports 16 and surroundingthe nuts 13 are; collars 20 which project beyond the CID outer face of the cup-shaped members 18 thereby preventing the ears 1.9 from contact-ing vith the members 18 and marring or otherwise injuring the same.

The upper ends of the ears 19 have headed screws 21 extending therefrom, the shank of each of which is surrounded by a wooden collar 22 which is covered with. glue and then, forced into a tapered socket 23 formed in the lower face of the cover 11.

hen the ears 19 are secured to the cover 11 in the manner described said cover will have a smooth unbroken surface capable of taking a coating of enamel or other desired finish.

The thickness of the cars 19 is just twice the amount of offset of the shank 17 to the center of the support 16 and consequently when it is desired to install on a hopper a seat 10 without the cover 11, the right hand support 16 as indicated in Fig. 2 is inserted in the left hole in the hopper as indicated in Fig. l, and the left support is placed at the right of the seat as shown.

The porcelain covers 18 are placed upon the transposed supports 16 in their original position, that is with their lateral. openings facing toward each other.

Due to the offset of the shank 17 relatively to the. support 16, when the cover 11 is omitted the face of the collar 20 will bear against the washer 14c and preventanylateral move ment of the various elements.

The hopper is usually associated with a low down tank whichv is so positioned that the cover 11 and seat 10 cannot tilt far enough. back to prevent them from falling and many expedients have been adapted to prevent the seat and cover from falling.

This desired result is accomplished in the present invention. by locating the hole 15 through the support 16 at a point offset from the center of the post or support 16 thereby bringing the hinge pin 12 further from the tank and thus permitting the cover and seat to tilt further to the rear.

This makes a very simple construction of hinge connection in which the parts have unbroken smooth surfaces adapted to be enamelled or otherwise finished.

The posts or supports 16 are. adapted to be interchanged to accommodate the device for various conditions and consequently the various elements are adapted for use, with out change, for mounting various forms of seats and covers on many forms of hop pers.

It is believed that the operation and many advantages of the invention will be fully understood without further description.

Having thus described my invention, I claim '1. The combination of a. seat; a hinge pin extending therethrough with its ends projecting beyond the side walls of said seat;

supports on opposite sides. of said seat having cylindrical holes therethrough to receive the projecting ends of the hinge pin; and a vertical shank extending downwardly from the bottom of each. support and offset laterally from the center thereof.

2. The combination of a seat; a hinge pin extending theretl'irough with its ends projecting beyond the side walls of said seat: supports on opposite sides of said seat having cylindrical holes therethrough to receive the projecting ends of the hinge pin, said holes being forward of the center of said supports; and a vertical shank extending downwardly from the bottom of each support, and offset laterally from the center thereof.

3. The c inbination of a seat; a hinge pin extending therethrough; supports having holes therethrough forward of the center thereof to receive the ends of said hinge pin; a cup-shaped cover for each support; and a downwardly extending shank on each support offset from the center thereof.

4. The combination of a seat; a hinge pin extending therethro-ugh; supports having holes therethroughto receive the ends of said pin; tubular nuts threaded to the ends of said pin; and a downwardly extending shank on each support.

5. The combination of a. seat; a hinge pin extending therethrough; supports haw ing holes therethrongh to receive the ends of said pin; tubular nuts threaded to the ends of said pin; a washer surrounding said pin between said seat and each nut; and a downwardly extending shank on each support.

6. The combination of a. seat; a hinge pin extending therethrough; supports having holes therethrough to receive the ends of said pin; a tubular nut threaded to each end of said pin; a cover; depending ears therefrom having holes therein to receive said tubular nut; and adownwardly extending shank on each support.

7. The combination of a seat; a hinge pin extending therethrough; supports having holes therethrough to receive the ends of said pin; depending ears therefrom having holes therein to receive said tubular nut; a. collar between each ear and the adjacent support; and a downwardly extending shank on each support.

8. The combination of a seat; hinge pin extending therethrough with its ends projecting beyond the side walls of said seat; supports enclosing the project-ing ends of said hinge pin; ears movable about the axis of said pin between the supports and the outside walls of said seat; a cover having cylindrical depressions in the bottom thereof; and members secured to said ears and adapted to be driven into said depressions and permanently positioned therein.

9. The combination of a seat; a hinge pin extending therethrough with its ends projecting beyond the side walls of said seat; supports enclosing the projecting ends of said hinge pin; ears movable about the axis of said pin between the supports and the out I side walls of said seat; a cover having cylindrical depressions in the bottom thereof; a member threaded to each ear provided with a head removed from said ear; and collars surrounding said members between the heads thereof and said ears and adapted to be driven into said depressions and permanently positioned therein.

10. The combination of a seat having alined pivots projecting from opposite sides thereof; interchangeable supports enclosing said projecting pivots and having ofiset shanks adapted to be secured to a hopper; ears movable about said projecting pivots between said seat and supports; a cover hav ing depressions in the bottom thereof; and members extending from the ends of said ears adapted to be driven into said holes and i permanently positioned therein.

11. The combination of a seat having alined pivots projecting from opposite sides thereof; supports on opposite sides of said seat having bearings completely enclosing said pivots; and a vertical shank extending downwardly from the bottom of each support and adapted to be secured to a hopper.

12. The combination of a seat having alined pivots projecting from the opposite sides thereof; supports having shanks adapt ed to be secured to a hopper and provided with bearings for said pivots; ears surrounding said pivots between said supports and the sides of said seat; tapered members mounted on said ears; and a cover provided with tapered depressions in the: bottom thereof into which said tapered members are adapted to be driven and permanently positioned.

13. The combination of a seat having alined pivots projecting from the opposite sides thereof; supports having shanks adapted to be secured to a hopper and pro vided with bearings for said pivots; ears surrounding said pivots between said supports and the sides of said seat; a screw'in the end of each ear having a head spaced from said ear; tapered members mounted on said screws between the heads and ears;

and a cover provided with tapered depressions in the bottom thereof into which said tapered members are adapted to be driven and permanently positioned.

Signed by me at 746 Old South Building, 294 Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts, this sixth day of December, 1923.

FREELAND D. LESLIE. Witnesses:

WALTER E. LOMBARD, NATHAN C. LOMBARD. 

